#Animus Dragon

[marinusart]

Whiteout was strong as hell. She deserves so much more

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What can be worse than making a photo of a traditional painting? The same thing but there are metallic details

[ookamimonster]

Gale as an animus-cursed nightwing. once a renowned prophet working under the nightwing queen (mystra) he became too ambitious and started dabbling with animus magic and animus-touched items which backfired badly.

[liao-drfl25]

Day 8 : This dragon is an animus- but their spells are wildly unpredictable

I choose an Icewing to represent an animus dragon. I know it’s not very original but it inspired me.

I don’t know why but I associate the animus power with the color yellow :0

Challenge inspirated by this post :

[starryknight-dragonarts]

Aero is a young Skywing who's fire breath is considered relatively weak compared to other Skywings, but he has some unusual ability or incredible luck whenever fire is involved. For some unexplained reason, fire just refuses to hurt him; He isn't fireproof, but fire will just move around him and not touch him. Initially it was thought that he might be an Animus Dragon- (To anybody unfamiliar with Wings of Fire lore: Animus Dragons are a rare magical condition some dragons are born with where by command they could enchant an object to do just about anything they can imagine: Enchant a stone statue to become an animate assassin, enchant a wooden bowl to double any object that's placed in it, enchant a hole in the ice to produce infinite Seals! However there is a historic precedent for these Lizard Wizards to become Homicidal the more they use their powers so the Skywing tribe's solution was just to kill anybody with weird powers they don't understand before they become a problem.) -but when tested he has shown that he is not capable of casting any spells. Some Skywings still wanted to execute him anyway for having a strange power they didn't understand, but he was deemed relatively harmless and makes a very capable Blacksmith.

Aero is friendly and upbeat but he also has a tendency to be a little irresponsible, thrill-seeking, and often meddles into other Dragon's business or wander into places he's not supposed to be in.

Smith is a Skywing Animus who found out very quickly what his tribe does to hatchlings who are discovered to be Animus Dragons. He knew he needed to hide somewhere to not be discovered, so he used his magic to hide somewhere he believed he could never be discovered: Inside the body of his friend Aero, inhabiting him in a sort of non-physical form like a ghost who is able to communicate with Aero mentally. Aero is a considered relatively weak and unassuming so that benefits Smith as being his cover, but he has a vested interest in keeping Aero safe.

Being a Secret Animus and trying to protect his buddy Aero, Smith can't just go casting spells all the time or he could implicate Aero as the Animus and then they are both in trouble so Smith is careful and thoughtful about what he enchants making sure it's something he needs and has multiple applications so he doesn't need to make more spells. He made an enchantment to allow himself to control Fire.

Smith is reserved and apprehensive around other dragons having learned early on that as an animus he can not be trusted and his own tribe would kill him if they knew what he was. The only dragon he's really comfortable around is Aero and luckily Aero is the only one who can see him. Smith is creative and intuitive, despite having the capability to turn anything into a master craftwork with his magic he prefers the process of doing things himself with his own claws and values the work it takes to make something rather than it coming easy, however in his current form crafting things by claw is a little difficult.

Aero and Smith collaborated to build a suit of Armor that Smith can control remotely using or can open up and be worn by Aero as an actual suit of armor

[screamingendlesslyintospace]

thinking about Orca again.

Why did she choose to challenge Queen Coral when she was only 7 years old? we don’t really know what type of relationship Orca and Coral had, or why Orca decided to challenge Coral when she did. at first i thought it was because the queen was going to try to use her animus powers in the same way she is using Anemone, but Orca hid her powers from the queen. was it because she hated queen coral and wanted to be queen so badly that she couldn’t wait longer?

clearly she thought she would win the challenge, her statue in the nursery being already enchanted to kill future heirs BEFORE she entered the fight proves that. But Queen Coral ended up winning, and as she was dying Orca said “I did this all wrong. you’re going to rule forever, aren’t you, mother? you should thank me…” … but if Orca was an animus dragon could she not have won the fight easily using her powers? she probably wanted to keep her powers hidden, but because nobody knew she had magic, could she not have quietly used magic to assist her and make it look like it was a natural kill instead of a magical one? she would have saved her own life and secured her win by doing that. did she care about it being a fair win enough to not use her powers? or was there another reason?

if she was concerned about her soul turning evil from using her powers to kill Queen Coral, i’d understand not wanting to use them during the fight. HOWEVER … isn’t the concept of her statue pretty dark? it implies that—if Orca had won—she would have just been completely fine with every single one of her female eggs being smashed. now that could be just how Orca was; just kind of ruthless and power hungry (ig ?), and willing to see her eggs die if it meant she wouldn’t have competition for the throne. but, could it also have been partly because of her soul beginning to turn due to the use of her Animus powers? we don’t really know how much she used them or what she was using them for. though the statue would lead us to believe she used them—at least sometimes—for selfish reasons, which could mean that her soul had begun to turn slightly.

if Orca had enchanted the statue as she was dying as a way to take revenge on queen coral, her whole situation would have made more sense. but based on the fact that she chose to challenge the queen so young, AND she wanted to ensure all her own dragonets would be murdered just so she could remain queen, it kind of seems like her soul was already being corrupted by her powers. but if she had been corrupted, did nobody notice any changes in her behavior or thinking? even if they were subtle changes.

Because even when queens plan ahead and think about how to keep themselves from being challenged for the throne, they usually have at least one dragonet who’s a direct heir, even if they take measures to keep control over them. because longevity of your own kingdom and species is obviously (or, at least most likely) important to every type of queen, even if it’s for selfish reasons, because every clear-thinking dragon knows they won’t live forever. unless it was Orcas plan to win the queen challenge and then secretly enchant herself to live forever like Jerboa I?? would she have kept her animus powers a secret as queen??

i don’t know, i’m just very curious about the Orca era and Orca as a character. many brainworms.

[sometimesidrawer]

TURTLEE

SWEET LIL GUY

YES

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Artfight revenge for @long-bird of their Mudwing/Seawing Frog Mire!

I think Mudwings are cool and underrated, so this was an easy choice of character! Hope I did em justice because im kinda out of practice with dragons rip c':

You can see Long-bird's excellent attack on Kiina Here!

Only the character's owner can use this piece!

[the-reel-albacat]

turtle and anemone!

Who/what should I draw next?

[hugsloves]

Darkstalker the stinky in the jar... where he belongs

[sidyashchiy-na-plakhe]

Some little sketch with headcanon.

[buzzkillchainsaw]

Because y'all enjoy my old wof stuff so much, here's more!

Ice is the first animus dragon born into the Icewing tribe after losing Arctic. Queen Icebreaker achieved this by kidnapping an animus from another tribe. When she refused to follow Icebreaker's orders and cast a spell on herself to prevent her from ever casting any more, the Queen forced one of her sons to marry her. Ice was the result. Queen Icebreaker gave her this name, probably intending some sort of cruel poetic symbolism. All this happened in secret, shielded away from the tribe. The misfit family had to stay hidden in secret underground chambers. Mesa, the captured animus, tried to escape at one point. A guard, unaware of her importance, mistook her for an enemy assassin trying to break into the palace and killed her with his ice breath.

Once Ice was confirmed to be an animus, the Queen set her new plan in motion. She had studied animus magic very closely all her life, with the sole purpose of returning it to her tribe. She made the little dragonet experiment with the magic, until Ice turned an Icewing into an animus. The Queen rejoiced, but she couldn't be careless with this new power. After all, everyone knew that using animus magic too much would cause the wielder to turn evil. She ordered Ice to turn her most trusted advisors into animi, but only allowing them to cast one spell before the magic would be gone again. Ice slowly began realising her purpose, and she did not like it. She began planning her escape.

After an "accident" Icebreaker gave her a special order: To enchant a pair of shackles that would prevent the wearer to be unable to cast any spells – unless the Queen herself allowed it. Ice was told that they were intended for the new animus army, but was chained down herself instead. The Queen had suspected that her little animus maker was planning to bail and took appropriate measures.

Ice now spends her days in her chamber, creating animi and testing out the new spells Icebreaker came up with to strengthen her kingdom. Each new spell was crazier than the last, and it was obvious that the Queen was becoming obsessed with power. After all, if you have an army of animi at your disposal, why not try conquering the continent a little?

[pheoblitz]

A break from MerNym to say hello to a Wings of fire OC. This is Haze, the seawing Nightwing version of Haze. Haze here is an animus by force. As a dragonet he picked up a pair of glasses cursed with the mind and power of an animus trying to escape death. Before being murdered, Tropic the seawing, sent his power and mind into the glasses with the goal to use the wearer as a puppet, appearing in their vision or taking over their body. However due to who they were fighting, the spell went slightly awire and linked the amount of control it had over the wearer to the moons before getting lost at sea. Eventually Haze found them and was compelled to put them on.

For years he was a puppet to Topic. Though due to the help from his sky night brother flare and the darkest night, Haze managed to set himself free by using the magic to embed itself into a book of which he put part of himself into to make sure no other dragons could use the magic for something that went Agienst his own morals as of when he cast the spell. Meaning he couldn't either if the magic chipped away at his soul or power corrupted him, learning his lesson from the loose tales of dark stalker that Tropic had told him of.

Since then, he has passed his book down onto his successor. Thinking that animus magic respersents forces of nature and wildness. Something that is dangerous and beautiful and should be treated cautiously but not snuffed out and respected. Meanwhile, Tropic is still stuck now in the normal pair of glasses with Haze as punishment.

Here below you can see some process things I have like the coloured sketch, the colour blocking, and an alternative lighting example.

[ookamimonster]

Jade Winglet

[3zethe3zr]

Animus Design: Anemone

- Albatross -

Fun Fact: I've designed her with albinism and partially based her design off of bleached coral and yellow anemones!

[cinnamon-flame]

Starlight's animus issues

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hourglass my favorite boy ever. MY SPECIAL LITTLE GUY!! he's just a little stupid

his life lacks whimsy but he makes up for it by pretending there is! the horrors aren't real if he simply ignores them <3